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Global Lingo secures new contracts and increases staff

February 8, 2012
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Over the past four months, the Leeds office of Global Lingo has expanded massively to take on a huge increase in the amount of transcription, translation and interpreting work they have secured. Huge coup supplying translation services Andrew Trotter, Global Lingo’s founder and Managing Director, commented: “Towards the end of 2011 we secured a contract [...]

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Global Lingo appointed as language partner to my360plus

January 25, 2012
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We’re proud to announce that Global Lingo has been appointed language and translation partner to my360plus. Simon Walker, director my360plus, explains why Global Lingo was chosen. At my360plus, we’re delighted to have Global Lingo on board as our language and translation services partner. My360plus is an online coaching and development system that collects 360 degree [...]

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Seasons Greetings from Global Lingo… no envelope required

December 8, 2011
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Every year, companies give and receive hundreds of Christmas cards to their clients and customers alike, but sadly these are thrown out at the end of the season as the New Year arrives. This year Global Lingo has stepped away from the crowd and sent a Merry Christmas message with a mini Norway spruce Christmas [...]

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Freelance translators required to support large translation contract win

September 26, 2011
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Global Lingo is proud to have been awarded the translation contract as sole global supplier for one of the leading multi-national oil and gas companies. Our reputation, among suppliers and clients, for delivering very high quality translation projects has led to us securing this very prestigious contract. As such we are looking for a number [...]

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Looking for a job? Work your social networks

September 20, 2011
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Our office in Leeds is expanding quickly so as you can imagine we’re looking to hire people. At the moment we’re looking for two full-time roles in our Leeds office: AAT Qualified Bookkeeper and a Transcription Account Executive. With the economy in the state it’s in you’d think recruiting people would be relatively easy. But [...]

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Cheap translation services and why you get what you pay for

September 19, 2011
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There’s a proliferation of translation services at the moment offering really low prices for translation and typically offering three levels of translation service. The problem with this is that low prices mean low quality translations and that results in bad customer feedback when they read the words you so carefully crafted. Levels of translation in [...]

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Internships increase profits as well as productivity

July 15, 2011
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Global Lingo’s current Translation Project Management Interns. Left to right, Anna Thorncroft, Fiona Henderson, Amelie Drouin, Fiona Lindley. Businesses who invest in interns are improving profits and productivity as well as creating a workforce for the future, says Leeds-based translation and transcription company Global Lingo. According to a report by the Higher Education Funding Council [...]

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Andrew Trotter on The Art of Growing a Business

May 26, 2011

Recently Andrew Trotter, Managing Director of Global Lingo was interviewed for the HSBC Business Matters newsletter. He gave his thoughts on ‘The Art of Growing a Business’ here’s a short extract from the interview. “I founded the business in 2006, because I felt no one was delivering fast, reliable and accurate transcription and translation services, [...]

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Presenting at Languages @ Work for Leeds University

January 17, 2011

On Wednesday 19th January I’ve been asked to speak to an audience of 40 year 9 pupils (ages 13 and 14) with the general aim to inspire pupils to choose languages at GCSE. This is part of Leeds University’s Languages @ Work programme and I’m really pleased and honoured to have been asked to speak. [...]

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Does Word Lens spell the end for professional translation?

December 17, 2010

Today is a momentous day. The long promised reality of realtime translation has come one step closer with the launch of Word Lens by QuestVisual. This amazing iPhone app translates from English to Spanish and Spanish to English right before your eyes! Simply start the iPhone app and point the camera at the Spanish sign, [...]

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